Book Description

If you want to gain more control over your social networking activities with Google+, this jargon-free guide helps you quickly master the ins and outs of the site. Learn how to organize your contacts, hold video chats with as many as ten people, and determine exactly who may learn what about you. With this book, you’ll navigate Google+ with ease.

The important stuff you need to know

• Massage your profile. Control what the public, specific groups, or certain individuals can see about you.
• Move in the right circles. Assign folks to different groups and share the right stuff with the right people.
• Jump into streams. Get all the updates, pictures, and links from people you know.
• Host hangouts. Organize and attend group video chats.
• View and share photos. Make them available to whomever you like—whether or not they’re Google+ members.
• Get notifications. Monitor what others do (and share about you) on Google+.
• Go mobile. Use Google+ on your Android, iPhone, or mobile web browser.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Getting Started
Chapter 2. Managing Contacts with Circles
Chapter 3. Streams, Sharing, and Privacy
Chapter 4. Notifications Download Now »

Book Description

With the Android platform fast becoming a target of malicious hackers, application security is crucial. This concise book provides the knowledge you need to design and implement robust, rugged, and secure apps for any Android device. You’ll learn how to identify and manage the risks inherent in your design, and work to minimize a hacker’s opportunity to compromise your app and steal user data.

How is the Android platform structured to handle security? What services and tools are available to help you protect data? Up until now, no single resource has provided this vital information. With this guide, you’ll learn how to address real threats to your app, whether or not you have previous experience with security issues.

• Examine Android’s architecture and security model, and how it isolates the filesystem and database
• Learn how to use Android permissions and restricted system APIs
• Explore Android component types, and learn how to secure communications in a multi-tier app
• Use cryptographic tools to protect data stored on an Android device
• Secure the data transmitted from the device to other parties, including the servers that interact with your app

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Android Architecture
Chapter 3. Application Permissions Download Now »

Book Description

Android in Action, Third Edition is a comprehensive tutorial for Android developers. This fast-paced book puts you in the driver’s seat — you’ll master the SDK, build WebKit apps using HTML 5, and even learn to extend or replace Android’s built-in features by building useful and intriguing examples.

When it comes to mobile apps, Android can do almost anything, and with this book, so can you! Android, Google’s popular mobile operating system and SDK for tablets and smart phones, is the broadest mobile platform available. It is Java-based, HTML5-aware, and loaded with the features today’s mobile users demand.

Android in Action, Third Edition takes you far beyond “Hello Android.” You’ll master the SDK, build WebKit apps using HTML 5, and even learn to extend or replace Android’s built-in features. You’ll find interesting examples on every page as you explore cross-platform graphics with RenderScript, the updated notification system, and the Native Development Kit. This book also introduces important tablet concepts like drag-and-drop, fragments, and the Action Bar, all new in Android 3.

What’s Inside

• Covers Android 3.x
• SDK and WebKit development from the ground up
• Driving a robot with Bluetooth and sensors
• Image processing with Native C code

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Book Description

This approachable, four-color book will offer readers a thorough guide to using Google+, Google’s answer to the challenge it faces from Facebook, Twitter, and all other ways people are being social on the web. After covering the fundamentals of being social on the web, the book digs into how to set up and manage Circles, control the Stream, share photos and video, use Hangouts, get the most out of Sparks, and use games. There will be coverage of photography and building communities around photography. The book also covers using the iOS and Android Google+ apps.

As Google+ expands its social service, the author will write new digital updates available to book purchasers free through 2012.

Table of Contents
1. Getting Started with Google+
2. Circles
3. Dipping into the Stream
4. Hangouts
5. Photos
6. Search
7. Going Mobile
8. Games
9. Settings
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Book Description

An enjoyable, understandable, and eye-catching user interface is a key part of getting users to love your app. Users today expect a polished multimedia experience on their mobile device, and animation is a core part of that. The Android operating system is at the forefront of tablet and smartphone technology, and there is a plethora of opportunities for developing exciting applications with animation.

Android 3.0 Animations Beginner’s Guide will introduce each of the most popular animation techniques to you. Using step-by-step instructions, you will learn how to create interactive dynamic forms, moving graphics, and 3D motion.

You will be taken on a journey from simple stop motion animations and fades, through to moving input forms, then on to 3D motion and game graphics.

In this book, you will create standalone animated graphics, three-dimensional lifts, fades, and spins. You will become adept at moving and transforming form data to bring boring old input forms and displays to life. Learn how game programmers create fast animations on the fly, and also build live wallpapers to liven up your users’ home-screens!

If you are tired of writing lifeless interfaces and want to add some animated excitement, this is the book for you!

A step-by step guide for creating, testing, and making use of stunning animations for android applications and games. Download Now »

Book Description

Beginning Java 7 guides you through this language and a huge assortment of platform APIs according to the following table of contents:

Chapter  1: Getting Started with Java
Chapter  2: Discovering Classes and Objects
Chapter  3: Exploring Advanced Language Features
Chapter  4: Touring Language APIs
Chapter  5: Collecting Objects
Chapter  6: Touring Additional Utility APIs
Chapter  7: Creating and Enriching Graphical User Interfaces
Chapter  8: Interacting with Filesystems
Chapter  9: Interacting with Networks and Databases
Chapter 10: Parsing, Creating, and Transforming XML Documents
Chapter 11: Working with Web Services
Chapter 12: Java 7 Meets Android
Appendix A: Solutions to Exercises
Appendix B: Scripting API and Dynamically Typed Language Support
Appendix C: Odds and Ends
Appendix D: Applications Gallery

Chapter 1 introduces you to Java and begins to cover the Java language by focusing on fundamental concepts such as comments, identifiers, variables, expressions, and statements.

Chapter 2 continues to explore this language by presenting all of its features Download Now »